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"It's really quite hard work," said Moon, who spent nearly 40 hours on his 30-foot-long kitty masterpiece. Other works are mind-bending, surreal 3D images of futuristic robots and mechanical parts. Denise Kowal, the founder of the Sarasota Chalk Festival, said that many of the artists also work on traditional canvas and it's a treat for people to see them actually in action, "painting" on the ground. "Artists always spend their time inside the gallery and this is so awesome because the public really gets to be there and see the whole creative process and what goes in it from beginning to end," she said. There are a number of pavement artists visiting the Florida festival from Italy, a country where street art is popular. In the 16th century, Italians who painted the Madonna and other images from inside cathedrals in chalk on the streets were known as Madonnari.
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